Improvement in processes of preserving meat



manner of preparing it for sausage.

U ITED STATES PATENT QEEIo.v

WINDSOR LELAND, OF onIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent Nov 176,652, dated April 25,1876; application tiled October 8, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WINDSOR LELAND, of the city of Chicago, county of(look, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Process forPreparing and Fitting Meat for Canning, and for preserving the same; andI hereby declare the following to be a full and accurate description ofthe same.

The object of my invention is the preservation of meats, seasoned orfresh, containing all their natural juices and flavors, with the wateror watery portions of the same eliminated, yet sufiiciently moist to bepalatable.

My process consists of the following manip' ulations: First, ifthe meatbe already seasoned, I cook the same by boiling or steaming the sameuntil it is fit for food. If not seasoned, I either season it beforecooking or during the process of cooking. Second, I then out, chop, orseparate into fragments the meat after the Third, I

then expose the same to a process of drying, for the purpose ofevaporating all the water or moisture which may be acquired by the meatduring the process of cooking, as aforesaid. rid of the water ispreferable to the process of pressing the juices from the meat for such,

purpose, as by such drying the natural juices and flavors of the meatare preserved, and not driven off with the water. Fourth, I then packthe meat thus prepared into air-tight vessels, carefully excluding theair by hermetically sealing the same. By this process 1 find I canpreserve all kinds of meat, and the flesh of fowls, game, and the like,for any desirable time, and retain their natural flavors.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is'

The herein-described process of preserving meats, the same consisting infirst cooking the meat by boiling or steaming, then cutting or choppingit, then evaporating, as described, and finally sealing the meat sotreated in airtight cans, substantially as set forth.

- WINDSOR LELAND. In presence of- JOEL TIFFANY,

JOHN M. SPOONER.

This method of treating the. meat to be

